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The earliest Jewish settlers arrived in Michigan during the mid-18th century. Primarily traders associated with the burgeoning fur industry, few of these entrepreneurs remained permanently. During the early 1840s, the five Weil brothers, farmers and tanners from Germany, became the first prominent Jewish settlers in Washtenaw County. By the end of that decade, a Jewish cemetery was established on what is now the site of the Horace Rackham Building on the University of Michigan campus. Though the Weil family eventually moved west, the cemetery remained as a marker for what was then a miniscule Jewish presence. In the early 20th century, Osias Zwerdling and the Lansky family arrived. In addition to reestablishing a Jewish presence in Ann Arbor, they helped form what became Beth Israel Congregation. Growth of the Ann Arbor Jewish community coincided with the evolution of the university, as well as the city. By the end of the 20th century, a vibrant community representing all facets of Judaism had been established.

A book of questions and answers about everyday phenomena in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and astronomy.

From the Blurb: What kind of day was February 28, 1969? An ordinary one in the life of The New York Times, but even an ordinary day at The Times crackles with excitement and tension as the news of the world flows into the paper's block long newsroom. Ruth Adler asked reporters, editors, copyboys and pressmen to keep notes on February 28 (a day picked at random), and she has pulled them all together into an extraordinary hour-by-hour description of how a single issue of the paper is created. She begins with the foreign correspondents getting and filing their stories from stations around the world and ends as the last paper rolls off the presses at 3 am. In between, the process of putting out a great newspaper is recorded, full of personalities and anecdotes, inside information, and bits of Times lore. In the best journalistic tradition, Miss Adler has written a book that is a masterpiece of reporting-lucid, fascinating, informative.

Discusses how the earth's crust was formed and why it keeps changing, and how scientists learn about the earth's outside layer.

The earliest Jewish settlers arrived in Michigan during the mid-18th century. Primarily traders associated with the burgeoning fur industry, few of these entrepreneurs remained permanently. During the early 1840s, the five Weil brothers, farmers and tanners from Germany, became the first prominent Jewish settlers in Washtenaw County. By the end of that decade, a Jewish cemetery was established on what is now the site of the Horace Rackham Building on the University of Michigan campus. Though the Weil family eventually moved west, the cemetery remained as a marker for what was then a miniscule Jewish presence. In the early 20th century, Osias Zwerdling and the Lansky family arrived. In addition to reestablishing a Jewish presence in Ann Arbor, they helped form what became Beth Israel Congregation. Growth of the Ann Arbor Jewish community coincided with the evolution of the university, as well as the city. By the end of the 20th century, a vibrant community representing all facets of Judaism had been established.

This richly detailed overview surveys the evolution of geometrical ideas and thedevelopment of the concepts of modern geometry from ancient times to the present.Topics include projective, Euclidean, and non-Euclidean geometry as well as the roleof geometry in Newtonian physics, calculus, and relativity. Over 100 exercises withanswers. Includes a new Introduction by Peter Ruane.Reprint of The John Day Company, Inc., New York, 1966

A history and survey of coal and coal mining, from its formation in the earth to its use as fuel.

Explains how tops spin, and why other things such as a yo-yo and a washing machine and the earth spin and rotate.